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Determinants of Health
Patient Safety/Adverse Events
Advocacy
Ethical Implications
Healthcare Professionals
100
Can aid in the prevention and treatment of disease and influences the overall health of an individual
What is access to health services?
100
A comprehensive and crucial framework which establishes best safety practices in the form of six domains
What is patient safety?
100
An individual who is in the hospital and no longer needs treatment, but is staying because they are waiting for a place in long term care to become available
What is a bed blocker?
100
These 4 moral principles are the general ethics considered in health care.
What are autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence and justice?
100
Participates in the every day care of elderly patients in hospitals, long term care settings and even in the home through home visits.
What is a nurse?
200
A natural process of life and has been defined as the steady decline in the function of all organ systems
What is aging?
200
Unintended injuries or complications resulting in death, disability or prolonged hospital stay that arise from health care management
What is an adverse event?
200
The average wait time in Ontario for long term care
What is 4 months?
200
This ministry is responsible for funding long-term health care homes
What is the Ministry of Health and Long Term Care?
200
Produces images through x-ray technology that are useful for a physician to diagnose a patient.
What is a Radiological Technologist?
300
A place where seniors can live and receive support services
What is a long term care home?
300
CPSI safety domain (state the title and domain number) in which the nurses, doctors and physiotherapists should have come together and collaborated to diagnose Lois Smith's broken hip upon hospital admission and prevented further injury to her
What is domain 2, work in teams for patient safety?
300
One who promotes the rights of the patients using health care services, improves community health, and tries to enhance current health policy initiatives.
What is a healthcare advocate?
300
This ethical principle is considered if more independent elderly patients are able to live in the comfort of their homes while receiving more home care visits.
What is autonomy?
300
Treats patients with high energy photons or electrons to shrink tumours and kill cancer cells.
What is a radiation therapist?
400
This increases the probability of having less access to nutritious foods, difficulty paying their mortgage, repairing any damage to their home, limited access to transportation, and have non-insured health services
What is low income?
400
Number (fraction) of seniors that experience a fall per year over the age of 65
What is one in three (one third)?
400
This is currently the maximum amount in tax savings available to eligible family caregivers.
What is $300?
400
This principle ensures that equal treatments must be available to all geriatrics regardless of where they staying.
What is distributive justice?
400
Treats pathologies of the lower leg and foot caused by various diseases, co-morbidities, structural abnormalities and poor footwear habits.
What is a chiropodist?
500
It is the scheduling of regular activities, whether it is a group outing with friends or visits from family
What is improving socialization?
500
In the Lois Smith Case, healthcare workers involved failed to respond to and disclose her adverse event as they didn't realize it had happened in the first place. This is an example of...
What is non-recognition?
500
List one of the four requirements to receive the Family Caregiver tax credit
What is 1) the dependent elderly family member must be you or your spouse's parent or grandparent; 2) they must be 65 years of age or older 3) they must live in the dwelling where you currently reside 4) they must have a net income of less than $19,435
500
Lois Smith experienced this when she would tell her daughter on visits that she was ignored and nurses would not answer her buzzer, leaving her thirsty, hungry and in need of the bathroom.
What is negligence?
500
A physician trained for the specialized care of people over the age of 65 years.
What is a Geriatrician?